Meaning of devility | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being a devil or like a devil; devilishness.

uncountable

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Examples

“Because, according to medical science, as defined in the branch of phychology and pshychiatry, there are four different stages of nervous devility.”

“His eyes a prosecutor's shone through slits, devility stood to twist⟳ the rope to my neck, gaunt limb burdened to crink.”

“Therefore the falsely masculine cling⟳ to the skirts of the Diabolic for fear that they should be obliged to come⟳ to terms, one way or another, with God's just retribution, whereas the genuinely masculine, who are still fearful of God and therefore theoretically faithful unto the possibility of godliness, remain⟳ open⟳ to the possibility of light⟳ as the redemption of heat and master of motion, remain⟳ open⟳, in short, to the possibility of God and of divine deliverance from the world and all that would deny⟳ such deliverance in favour of that false relationship between Man and the Devil, antihumanity and devility, which far from conjoining pluralism with monism bespeaks a double⟳ pluralism the only outcome of which is the denial of monism on both phenomenal and, especially, noumenal terms.”

“Think⟳ of love⟳ in all the wrong places then surmise his wont to copulate Caustic, green with envy the stevedore of a young man blest of God who precociously managed skills of life with sports-like agility ergo, the planned deception of outright lies spawned in darkest devility.”

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